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I would do the second option that you recommended, but the items I want to keep are more than the free space that I have on drive C. Therefore, how do you go about taking ownership of items of drive D and then getting permissions for those items as well (folders and subfolders)?

You are not going to like mey answer, but under the circumstances and planning for the future, buy a larger external USB drive. I think I saw a 1TB for $100 at Fry's. My largest external usb is 320 GB.

Second Drive Has Me Locked Out After Re-installing Win7

Issues installing Win7 on new SSD DriveHi All,
The HD on my 2.5 year old Samsung laptop has lost its Primary, System (C:) partition, and it now shows up as unallocated space. The extended, logical Data (D:) partition is still in tact with all data readable, and I have backed it all up to another drive.
I have installed the drive...

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Installing win7 without formatting the C: driveHello all,
How to install Windows 7 (say, x86, ultimate) to a machine without formatting the C: drive, that is, installing a new copy of that OS and keep the old OS existing on that machine whether it has been win7 or XP? My goal is to reach the files that are in that old OS after installing new...

Installing win7 on new hard driveI had to buy a new hard because the old one went wrong. I was running win7 64 bit on the old one, i do not have a windows 7 installation cd and the sticker underneath with the product key is faded. Do i need to buy a new window7?

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Installing WIn7 on 1st hard drivei have vista nad got today window 7 ultimate and a 2nd and 3rd hard drive and want to install windows 7 on my 1st hard drive are my other hard drives ok and will windows only install on the 1st drive and leave the other 2 alone and not format them?

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Installing Win7 on a secondary driveI'm currently using a laptop that has two harddrives (C and D). I currently have Windows XP installed on my C drive and wish to upgrade to Windows 7, however, I do not want to go through the pain of reformatting that drive and reinstalling all my programs, so is there some way I can install Windows...